RFR: (S) 7152791 wbapi tests fail on cygwin

[John Coomes]

Mikael Gerdin (mikael.gerdin at oracle.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Buglink:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7152791
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/7152791/webrev.0/
> 
> Summary: test/Makefile does not handle cygwin's response to "uname -s" 
> and cygwin-style paths.
> This caused the test "test/sanity/WBApi.java" to fail because it was 
> called through test/Makefile.

I hit this a couple of times; thanks for fixing it.  Looks good to me.

-John

> To run the test through the makefile one would use a command line like:
> cd test; make JT_HOME=$MY_JTREG PRODUCT_HOME=$MY_JDK wbapitest
> 
> I modified the Windows detection logic a bit and introduced a 
> "GETMIXEDPATH", similar to how the JDK repository handles the same 
> issue. I did not modify the "packtest" or "jtreg_tests" targets since 
> they aren't executed as far as I know.
> 
> Verified the fix by running the makefile target in cygwin manually and 
> by running JPRT both with the default "release" and with "-release jdk8"
> 
> Thanks
> /Mikael